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Phillips, aged 49, of Factory Row, Torquay, admitted making a malicious mobile phone call and threatening another person with a blade. He was jailed for six months by Judge Geoffrey Mercer, QC, at Exeter Crown Court.

He told him:"You have a very long record. Your 50th birthday is coming up and it is time that things changed. I am not sending you to prison for being homeless, I am sending you to prison because you had a knife and threatened somebody with it."

Mr Peter Coombe, prosecuting, said Phillips had been released from prison shortly before the incident on October 2. He argued with his former partner, went away for two hours, and returned drunk.